As I fell, I heard my leg snap beneath me, and the sound of myself screaming. Since Greenland achieved self-rule in 2009, one of the few areas remaining under Danish jurisdiction is the military – Arctic Command, responsible for search and rescue operations, amongst other things. Arctic Command has a helicopter on permanent lease from …

There are many frustrations about living in Greenland – some small, some not so small. One of the small ones is that Greenland apparently doesn’t exist. I expect there are other parts of the world with the same problem. Think of New Caledonia, Gibraltar, or Puerto Rico. All have a similar status to Greenland, which …

Sometimes – well more than sometimes – Greenlandic beaurocracy knocks me flat. Systems aren’t really systematic. Public servants often don’t really serve the public. And, more often than not, well-intentioned regulation falls completely out of step with physical resources, competencies, and realities. Last fall we had a fine example. We had bought in to a …